Then the team implanted a long drug-eluting stent from the left main stem toward the proximal LAD covering the LAD lesion, restoring TIMI flow to grade III.

The presence of significant stenoses (asterisk) in the proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD) and intermediate branch (IM) could be confirmed by conventional angiography.

To the Editor: Recognition of characteristic changes in an electrocardiogram (ECG) that are associated with acute occlusion of a coronary artery guides decisions regarding immediate reperfusion th ...

Medical treatment was as effective as surgery for patients with moderate to severe isolated stenosis in the proximal left anterior descending artery who had fractional flow reserve of 0.80 or greater, ...

Last week, a 72-year-old man stopped to tell me about his heart condition. He said he had a stress test that was positive and ...

A widowmaker heart attack is a type of heart failure in which the heart's biggest artery, the left anterior descending (LAD) artery, is completely blocked. The LAD supplies a significant portion ...

Intravascular ultrasonography of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery showed that the neck of the aneurysm was 10 mm in length. The lesions in the circumflex artery and the . . .

Aug. 22, 2002 — Minimally invasive bypass surgery was better than stenting for a high-grade proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery stenosis, according to the results of a ...

They used an inflatable pneumatic cuff occluder positioned around the artery to create 30%, 50% and 70% narrowing of the proximal LAD artery. Power-Doppler volumes overlaid on anatomical B-mode ...

Cardiac MRI demonstrated that the proximal two-thirds of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery had an intramural course, and confirmed the presence of mild, LV septal hypertrophy, with normal ...

Proximal Coronary Artery Stenting: DES Versus BMS and LAD Versus the Rest Presenter: Fredrik Calais, Bo Lagerqvist, Stefan James, Jerzy Leppert, Ole Fr?bert REGISTER for free or LOG IN to view this ...

Fractional flow reserve (FFR) can accurately identify those patients with equivocal lesions in the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery who may not need revascularization and will see ...